I've been playing on my table more than I have in years and have been practicing my 1P a lot. I came up with a practice game to motivate my practice.
Playing against the "1P Ghost"
1. Break with any standard break for 1P and make an honest effort to make a good break.
2. Take ball in hand and run balls into the pocket that you broke to.
3. Depending on your skill level, to win the game you must pocket a set number of balls for your level. I have been playing to get 5 balls to win the game and it is not as easy as it sounds.
4. Race to 7.
You get a lot of practice on your break, and it really improves your "working" the table. Sounds simple, but all it takes is a numb nuts shot or roll here or there and the 5 is hard to maintain. A lot of 3's amd 4's. I've only been doing this for a couple of days and I had my first two 8 and outs today. My table has 4 1/8 inch pockets so that adds to the difficulty, along with getting used to a Rogue shaft.
If you have a table just try this going to 3 or 4 a couple of games and see how you do. Then set a "target" number of balls to push yourself in a race to 7.
Hope ya'll enjoy!
Playing against the "1P Ghost"
1. Break with any standard break for 1P and make an honest effort to make a good break.
2. Take ball in hand and run balls into the pocket that you broke to.
3. Depending on your skill level, to win the game you must pocket a set number of balls for your level. I have been playing to get 5 balls to win the game and it is not as easy as it sounds.
4. Race to 7.
You get a lot of practice on your break, and it really improves your "working" the table. Sounds simple, but all it takes is a numb nuts shot or roll here or there and the 5 is hard to maintain. A lot of 3's amd 4's. I've only been doing this for a couple of days and I had my first two 8 and outs today. My table has 4 1/8 inch pockets so that adds to the difficulty, along with getting used to a Rogue shaft.
If you have a table just try this going to 3 or 4 a couple of games and see how you do. Then set a "target" number of balls to push yourself in a race to 7.
Hope ya'll enjoy!